Christabel

#11,146 in 2025Girls' name

Christ + beauty

Christabel has been given to 795 babies in the U.S. since 1901. In 2025 it ranked #11,146 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 34 recorded.

Babies named Christabel, 2025

1 in 414,000

Christabel over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Christabel: meaning, origin, and history

Christ + beauty

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Christabel means

Christabel means “Christ + beauty”, associated with Crist and -bel.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Middle English Cristabell, Cristabelle, from Crist (“Christ”) + -bel (“beauty”) (see Belle).

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Origin, language, and formation

Christabel is used in English.

Christabel comes through Middle English Cristabell,Cristabelle.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 795 girls were recorded with the name Christabel between 1901 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 34 in 2014; its best national rank was #1,515 in 1901.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,066 in 2020 to #11,146 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,159 in 2015 to #11,146 in 2025.

How common is Christabel?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 414,000; 8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 201,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #11,146; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 287,238 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Christabel sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Christabel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Christabels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Christabel was born before 2005 — so the typical Christabel is around 20 today.

Median birth year: 2005; About 20 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 29.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 57.7%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 675; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 29.3% of all recorded uses (233).

Is Christabel rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: −2,588; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: −3,080; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: −5,987; Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago: 0.31×; Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak: 23.5%; Peak was 2014 (34)
Years since peak: 11; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 25.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,515; 1901

Spellings of Christabel

Christabel is not the most common spelling — Christal is, with 68.3% against Christabel's 5.6%.

Christal68.3%9,710
Christel26.1%3,712
Christabel5.6%795

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Christabel is used

Across 1910–2025, Christabel was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 529,572 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —
2New York1 in —
3Texas1 in —
4Virginia1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Christabel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Christabel around the world

Where Christabel ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
1996–2025
#2,605
in 2025
Scotland
2011–2011
#810
in 2011
Ireland
2006–2018
#629
in 2018
France
1963–2022
#7,095
in 2022
Canada
2012–2024
#3,027
in 2024
South Australia
1946–1998
#710
in 1998

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Christabel by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #11,146
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 3,080
Best rank ever: #1,515; 1901
Peak year: 2014; 34 that year
First recorded: 1901
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 795
Count in 2025: 8

Names similar to Christabel

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Sibling names for Christabel

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Annabell Abagail Sydnie Sydni Rhianna Alysa Adelle Shyann

For a brother

Aaden Kale Brennen Tobin Jerimiah Jorden Gavyn Hamilton

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